"That's a shock to me," Goldberg said. "Because I always thought that if you could take somebody to court then you could have the accuser say, 'That’s who did it, this is what it is,' but you're saying that all that is left to these women is the court of public opinion."

"I always thought that rape cases were open-ended," she added.

Dan Abrams explained the current movement to remove said statute of limitations.

"I do think that we can say to women, 'If something happens, don't wait,' because what waiting does is it can make it harder to prove your case," Whoopi Goldberg said. "If you want to get him off the street, we need you to step out, and if you step out then he can be put away."

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